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- Essential background information on exciting new 'spintronic' technologies
- Accessible and comprehensive treatment
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About this book
The ability to understand and control the unique properties of interfaces has created an entirely new field of magnetism which already has a profound impact in technology and is providing the basis for a revolution in electronics. The last decade has seen dramatic progress in the development of magnetic devices for information technology but also in the basic understanding of the physics of magnetic nanostructures. Volume III describes thin film magnetic properties and methods for characterising thin film structure topics that underpin the present 'spintronics' revolution in which devices are based on combined magnetic materials and semiconductors. The present volume (IV) deals with the fundamentals of spintronics: magnetoelectronic materials, spin injection and detection, micromagnetics and the development of magnetic random access memory based on GMR and tunnel junction devices. Together these books provide readers with a comprehensive account of an exciting and rapidly developing field. The treatment is designed to be accessible both to newcomers and to experts already working in this field who would like to get a better understanding of this very diversified area of research.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bret Heinrich: Professor Physics Department, Simon Fraser University, Director Surface Physics Laboratory , SFU; Fellow of American Physical Society; Associate member of Canadian Institute for Advanced Research CIAR); member of Canadian European Research Initiative on Nanostructures (CERION II); a fellow of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, member of Advisory Committee, Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM), American Institute of Physics; member of International Advisory Committee, International Colloquium on Thin Films and Surfaces (ICMFS).
Anthony Bland: Professor at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK), and Fellow of Selwyn College has directed the Thin Film Magnetism group at the Cavendish Laboratory since 1989. He frequently serves as an advisory committee member (Rutherford Laboratory, UK and various international conferences) and was awarded the Wohlfarth prize by the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Electrical Engineers in 1999.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ultrathin Magnetic Structures IV
Book Subtitle: Applications of Nanomagnetism
Editors: Bretislav Heinrich, J. Anthony C. Bland
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b138704
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-21954-5Published: 13 December 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06022-9Published: 13 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-27164-2Published: 07 December 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 258
Number of Illustrations: 81 b/w illustrations, 117 illustrations in colour
Topics: Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films, Optical and Electronic Materials, Nanotechnology, Magnetism, Magnetic Materials